Elbow tendinitis

[MikeC]

What percentage of elbow tendinitis cases do you believe are caused by years of volume training arm days?

[Abaddon]

I have no idea, but tendinitis can just as easily be caused by certain exercises, rather than simply high volume.

[BendtheBar]

My experience...I did arm days until 2007 and had brutal tendinitis. Doing any row or curl felt like man-labor.

I stopped doing arm days late 2007 and my tendinitis went away. 100% gone. It took 6 months for it to slowly improve, but focusing on heavy push pull without much bicep work cured things 100%.

[Abaddon]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

My experience...I did arm days until 2007 and had brutal tendinitis. Doing any row or curl felt like man-labor.

I stopped doing arm days late 2007 and my tendinitis went away. 100% gone. It took 6 months for it to slowly improve, but focusing on heavy push pull without much bicep work cured things 100%.

If I'm starting with 100% healed elbows, I can hammer curl or pinwheel to my hearts content.

But concentration curls, or anything that jars my elbow will bugger me for MONTHS.

[Off Road]

I read an interesting article once that stated most elbow problems were cause by over-working the grip. It said you could aleviate much of the elbow problems by working your fingers in extension with bands. Food for thought.

[5kgLifter]

Originally Posted by Off Road

I read an interesting article once that stated most elbow problems were cause by over-working the grip. It said you could aleviate much of the elbow problems by working your fingers in extension with bands. Food for thought.

I also came across similar information a couple of weeks ago, interesting stuff.

[big_swede]

I think it has alot to do with curling and doing cable pushdowns for hours every week.